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Women Are People, Too
By: Mallory Ellington | September 5, 2022
The church all too often slants discussions of porn toward men’s struggles. But women also struggle. Ignoring this reality harms women—they are othered and do not have adequate resources to help them find freedom.
Preaching Porneia
By: Kyle Norman | September 5, 2022
Far too often, the church has preached a narrow view of sexual immorality, singling out things like homosexuality and pre-marital sex while ignoring or downplaying the everyday instances of lust that we all face.
Why the Church Needs to Talk about Miscarriage
By: Ciera Horton McElroy | May 5, 2021
The odds are high that there are women in every church congregation who have experienced miscarriage. A church that supports women’s equality needs to be vocal about women’s embodied experience, including miscarriage
In Vain Pursuit: How Courtship Culture Trained Us to Disregard Consent
By: Whitney Evans Harrison | April 28, 2021
Whether we realize it, the vestiges of courtship culture continue to loom large in many Christian communities, even egalitarian ones. What will it take for us to see equality as romantic?
My Body Kept Score: What Purity Culture Didn’t Know about Trauma
By: Becca De Souza | January 27, 2021
This article focuses on a little-discussed, negative effect of American Christian purity culture on women. Purity culture conditions women to not trust their body. This conditioning can negatively affect women’s bodily response when they experience physical trauma.
Proving My Virginity: Deuteronomy, Pap Smears, and the Hymen Myth
By: Christine Woolgar | September 23, 2020
I know that lack of sex and consent education harmed my husband’s and my sex life in the early years of our marriage. But as I look back, I realize that’s only one side of the coin. The other was biblical illiteracy.
Modesty, a Fairytale Witch, and Growing Up Dangerous
By: Chesna Hinkley | September 5, 2019
Anxiously regulating what girls wear is not going to make this world better. But raising thoughtful people will. I believe God wants something better for us than fairytale witches and sexist dress codes.
Risky Business: Being Female At An Evangelical University
By: Rachel Asproth | September 5, 2019
Female students at my evangelical university experienced both misogyny and racism. We were asked to conform to impossible standards. And we are not the only ones to struggle against injustice in the classroom. Women and girls all over the world face bias in school. From primary school to undergraduate to seminary, the system is not [...]
We Need to Talk to Our Kids About Sexism at School: 4 Talking Points for Parents
By: Rachel Asproth | September 4, 2019
All parents—and especially egalitarian parents—should talk to their kids about boundaries, consent, bodies, shame, double standards, peer pressure, and sexism in school. Have you had these conversations with your kids yet?
Body Shame Hurts Women and Limits Our View of God
By: Melanie Springer Mock | August 28, 2019
I have my own particular kind of body shame, but most women have experienced similar mortification about their physical beings—a heritage of enmity with the structure of skin and bones and viscera in which we daily move.
